Burying Place, Finlarig
Elizabeth Murray
October 1836
Medium
Pen and brown ink, and brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue wove paper
Dimensions
15.6 × 22.5 cm (6 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115194
About the Artist
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was a pioneering American painter whose exuberant, sculptural canvases redefined the boundaries of abstraction in the late 20th century. Born on September 6, 1940, in Chicago to Irish-Catholic parents—a lawyer father and a mother who aspired to commercial art—she showed an early passion for drawing cartoons, nurtured by her mother's encouragement and high school art te...